Wednesday, September 30, 2009

WaPo editorial writer gives Alan Grayson a pass

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Cooper guest casts judgment on Sparkman case

“We’re being very cautious about what we’re reporting on this and what we’re saying,” said Anderson Cooper on Friday night about the death of U.S. Census worker Bill Sparkman.  Only here’s the thing: He’s not being cautious at all. In fact, he allowed a guest to ramble on for two minutes about the probably that the gruesome deed was done by an anti-government extremist; a conclusion that is looking increasingly unlikely, by the way.

Monday, September 21, 2009

This is sad ...

How on Earth did this woman get her own show?

John Bolton: Obama “Above All That Patriotism”

Sunday, September 20, 2009

More on that CNN attack ad against Fox News

It would have been better if CNN didn’t cover last week’s tea party in Washington, DC.

CNN attacks Fox over tea party claim

CNN is actually running an attack ad against Fox News for a claim it made in a recent advertisment of it’s own ...

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Politico Looks Into the Right’s Successful Attacks

Divide between right, mainstream media: “The right-wing media’s single-minded focus on a handful of targets over the past months and its success in pushing those stories into the mainstream have underscored the sharp divide between traditional news organizations and the bloggers and talk show hosts aggressively pursuing an ideological agenda on-line and on TV and radio.”

Monday, September 14, 2009

CNN: Network of Democrat Viewers

CNN has done what it can to market itself as the middle-of-the-road cable network; not “rightwing” like Fox News, not “leftwing” like MSNBC. No Bias, No Bull and all that.

Kurtz: “Public respect for the media has plunged to a new low”

Interesting: “Public respect for the media has plunged to a new low, with just 29 percent of Americans saying that news organizations generally get their facts straight. That figure is the lowest in more than two decades of surveys by the Pew Research Center, which also found just 26 percent saying news outlets are careful that their reporting is not politically biased. And 70 percent say news organizations try to cover up their mistakes. That amounts to a stunning vote of no confidence. The new wrinkle is that Democrats are increasingly unhappy with a profession long viewed as liberal, with 59 percent saying news reporting is often inaccurate, up from 43 percent two years ago.”

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Contrast FT Article on Goldman Sachs CEO’s ‘Contrition’ With Blogger’s Interpretation

One of the fundamental old/new media dynamics is the processing and reprocessing of news articles through the opinion filter of blogs. We take it for granted now, but a short decade ago, we had scant outlets for this kind of instant interpretation…